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Editorial Review:
Road Trip is a mostly agreeable, by-the-numbers teen flick with a handful of inspired sequences, most of them involving MTV's resident disturbed soul, Tom Green. It concerns a sleepy University of Ithaca student named Josh (Breckin Meyer) who accidentally mails a video of his sexual encounter with an infatuation (Amy Smart) to his long time girlfriend (Rachel Blanchard), who's seemingly avoiding him while at school in Austin, Texas. Naturally, he recruits some pals--Seann William Scott as the lech, DJ Qualls as the hopeless nerd and Paulo Costanzo as the doper genius--to hit the open highway and intercept the package. Even more naturally, mayhem ensues: a car explodes, a bus is stolen, a nerd is deflowered, French toast is horribly violated and an elderly man bogarts both pot and Viagra.
The film's humour is more democratic than politically correct, as everyone--women and minority characters, not just the hipster white guys--have a hand in the high jinks. Green plays Barry Manilow (no, not that one), a professional student (eight years and counting)--he relates the film's story to sceptical prospective students while leading them on a tour of the college. In particular, in an already justly famous sequence of scenes, he sadistically anticipates and endeavours to accelerate a mouse's demise at the jaws of a python. It's very much in the vein of American Pie, perhaps a smidgen tamer, but at least its characters don't really learn any dopey lessons in the end. Director and co-screenwriter Todd Phillips, who earlier made the much-questioned documentary Frat House, again proves he's more adept at staging fictional comic sequences than real ones. --David Kronke, Amazon.com
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0
very funny but will deter people from paying for their kids to be educated at university This movie is very funny indeed.However it's not suitable for children, old-fashioned people with manners,or parents who are thinking of paying for their sons and daughters' education at a university.The sad thing is that students really do behave this badly.I couldn't watch it again because apart from the gross behaviour of the students there isn't much of a story going on.
Gross-out on wheels Typical gross-out fare, but very funny. Those long odyssies across the U.S are always a fertile ground for comic or dramatic scenarios. Plumping for the former, the makers of Road Trip have crafted a highly amusing tale that could easily have been termed Road To Damascus, as each character emerges from their experience/ordeal a different person. But let's not get too serious. 3 college dudes decide to make the long journey from New York state to Texas in order to intercept a dirty video made by the... more info
Ask Yourself An Honest Question Do you like American Pie? If so, this film is certainly made by the same stuff, and Seann William-Scott players E.L. which is a Stifler clone so obvious it's a wonder copywright writs were not served on the producers! Tom Green is excellent, and the plot and sub-plots are fun and diverse. This is definately not for someone who needs a dose of reality, the comedy scenes appear to have been created and then a plot placed around them rather than vice versa. The movie serves it's own purpose, by... more info
Road Trip For two films released so closely together, both this film and American Pie were always going to be directly compared. Whereas American Pie at least attempted some form of subtlety and warmth in amongst the jokes, Road Trip is a full on, head first launch into the teen frat college genre and leaves no room for any sort of sentiment at all.
Personally I prefer the route that American Pie took, but I can quite see how this film will appeal to those who prefer their humour a little more "in your face."
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